It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Equity is the only acceptable goal